May 22, 2010
The more capable and multipurpose our tools become, the more the burden of deciding what they do shifts on us. Physical constraints must be replaced by artificial ones, and the effectiveness of our tools becomes an extension of our own willpower and self-discipline. Without these constraints, our devices essentially become amorphous blobs that aren’t really great at getting anything done.
Jack Cheng on Habit Fields at A List Apart
A great article about design, memory, and getting shit done.
See also: Notes on Objectified.
Designers from IDEO: since the invention of the microchip, objects no longer need to look like what their function is. A glass and plastic rectangle can contain the internet.
Karim Rashid on archetypal design: “I have an iPod in one pocket, a cellphone in the other, and I’m on my laptop, yet I go to sit down and the chair looks like a wagon wheel with its wooden spindles!”
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